Sedum lanceolatum |
Sedum moranii |
|
---|---|---|
spearleaf stonecrop |
Rogue River stonecrop |
|
Habit | Plants perennial, tufted, glabrous proximally, glandular-pubescent distally. | |
Stems | vertical, branched, glandular, bearing dense terminal rosettes. |
|
Flowering shoots | recurved when young; simple, 13–30 cm, glandular pubescent; stem leaves oblong-oblanceolate, bases not spurred. |
|
Leaves | rosette leaves ascending, oblong-spatulate, laminar, 14–40 × 9–32 mm, green, bases not spurred; tips widely rounded to obtuse or notched; surfaces with papillose-crenulate appendage, glaucous when young; basal leaves much wider than thick; proximal leaves glabrous; distal leaves glandular-hairy. |
|
Inflorescences | cymes with 20–30 flowers; (2)3-branched, glandular; branches not forked. |
|
Flowers | 5-parted; sepals erect; ovate or lanceolate, 4–8.5 × 3–4.5 mm, 40% as long as petals, green; tips obtuse to acute, glandular-pubescent; petals erect, connate basally, oblong-lanceolate, 12–16 mm, yellow; tips aristate, glandular-pubescent; filaments greenish yellow; anthers yellow. |
|
Fruits | somewhat divergent when mature, fused basally, brown. |
|
2n | =30. |
|
Sedum lanceolatum |
Sedum moranii |
|
Distribution | ||
Discussion | Steep serpentine slopes and rock outcrops. Flowering May–Jul. 100–300 m. Sisk. Native. Endemic to Oregon. Sedum moranii is distinctive with its usually three-branched inflorescence and densely glandular sepals, petals, and inflorescence. This species is extremely rare, known only from a short stretch of the Rogue River. |
|
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 603 Barbara Wilson, Richard Brainerd, Nick Otting |
|
Sibling taxa | ||
Subordinate taxa | ||
Synonyms | Sedum lanceolatum var. rupicola, Sedum rupicola | Gormania glandulifera, Sedum glanduliferum |
Web links |
|